I was ordering some burgers from Five Guys, and I happened to glance at one of the employees. He was a handsome young man with rich, warm skin and a bright, radiant smile. When I noticed the fistula in his lower forearm, our eyes met and I asked him about his dialysis journey, offering support and sharing my own successful experience with kidney transplants. He mentioned that he was only listed at one hospital, so I encouraged him to consider listing at another center and provided him with information. It was a truly uplifting and heartwarming encounter.
Category Archives: Living With Dialysis
Plan Your Life Around Dialysis
L.Myers MSN RNC CSN: From Nurse to Patient
Dialysis is another job in your life but don’t forget to live. Sometimes you will have the energy for outings and others you will not. Forget making excuses or feeling bad if you can’t make an event, dialysis can be draining. I tried to plan my dialysis treatments earlier in the day so that it would give me time to recover.
I was told by a coworker, “Well all you do is sit in a chair.” I walked away from her, I refused to respond to such an ignorant comment. You are often judged by your exterior and the perception is that you look good on the outside so you must be okay. Don’t ever let anyone belittle your struggle, there is so much more to dialysis than sitting in a chair. I’d rather people ask than assume.
This is me post dialysis going out to dinner. I thank God that dialysis exists it gives dialysis patients the opportunity to live. I never enjoyed doing dialysis but I accepted it.
Living With Dialysis: https://www.kidney.org/sites/default/files/docs/11-10-0307_dialysistransitionbk2_oct07_lr_bm.pdfhttps://www.kidney.org/sites/default/files/docs/11-10-0307_dialysistransitionbk2_oct07_lr_bm.pdf
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